Dates: 2018 – 2023
Nacyb: Chair of an association of young women in Tunisia engaged in the construction of spaces for women and public speaking of young women: the first space in their city for sports activities reserved for women, the first women’s radio in Tunisia, a community network of women for a sustainable circular economy, participation in many international projects… There are many active women with an innovative approach to community participation, but Nacyb tells us: “Unfortunately, society does not see women in their professional career or in what they do in society, it sees women as fertility, as women in the family, who get married and then have children.”
Elettra: She lives in Tuscany, has lived many experiences in her personal, family, social, political life and all are connected by a thread: a maternal sense and care for her community. She was a trade unionist and a mayor. “I became mayor in my country fuelled by a spirit that was not the spirit of selfishness and doing things for myself driven by personal and partial interests but rather, it was just a joyful – although strenuous – way of expressing my love for a land from which I was born and in which I wanted to leave a trace of myself”. But it has not been a smooth path. Elettra tells us: “I did not accept the patterns and language of a dimension used by men and among men, and I had to deal with speaking using signs, languages, codes that I did not accept, that I did not want, that did not belong to me”.
Marta: Born in Rome, artist, activist, illustrator, sculptor, set designer, Marta is part of the collective Lucha Y Siesta in Rome – a “Home, a material and symbolic place of struggle for the rights of women and subjectivities oppressed by patriarchy”. Marta’s personal and professional path is based on the responsibility of triggering and taking care of – thanks to art – questions, possibilities, new paths of community, social and political meaning. She tells us: “We don’t need leaders to tell us how to think. It is necessary that together we make this journey to politically change the approaches and act with structures that understand us”.